Downstream

the Thames Conservancy
Board. In 1858, the year after
it took control of the river,
Board members paid a visit to
the estuary and found the
Crowstone ‘having been
comparatively recently placed
there, is a prominent object,
and is discernible at great
distance’. Over a hundred
years later, in the mid-1960s,
Essex Countryside Magazine
described it as, ‘standing tall
and solitary on the foreshore